Power Trip (2003)
Corruption, assassination and street rioting surround the story of the award-winning film, Power Trip, which follows an American multi-national trying to solve the electricity crisis in Tbilisi, capital of the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. Power Trip provides insight into today's headlines, with a graphic, on-the-ground depiction of the challenges facing globalization in an environment of culture clash, electricity disconnections and blackouts.
- Date of release
- 2003-12-17
- TMDB
- 5.0 / 10 (6)
- Runtime
- 1h 26m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Paul Devlin
Casting
- Dennis Bakke — Himself
- Piers Lewis — Himself
- Butch Mederos — Himself
- Bill O'Reilly — Himself
- Michael Scholey — Himself
Interesting facts
Power Trip is a documentary film by director Paul Devlin that describes the electricity crisis in the country of Georgia several years after the fall of the Soviet Union. In 1999, Georgia's government sold the electric utility company Telasi to AES Corporation, a multinational company headquartered in Virginia. The film follows several AES-Telasi employees as the company tries to turn a profit and ensure that power is consistently available to customers in the face of widespread corruption and failure to pay electricity bills by both commercial and residential customers.
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